Word: stagers
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Rudenstine defended the role of the museum's director, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel Lawrence E. Stager '65, in chairing the faculty committee that recommended the restructuring...
Several members of the museum's outgoing staff have suggested that Stager never demonstrated an interest in the museum's public activities since taking its helm six years...
...longtime supporter of the museum, Lecturer in Social Studies Martin H. Peretz, alleged in an editorial that appeared in The Crimson last month that Stager wants the museum only to advance his own specific research interests...
Toward the end of my administration and continuing in Stager's administration, increasing deficits threatened to sabotage the proper work of the Museum. The traditional center of the Museum's activity, exploration and excavation of sites of the ancient New East expanded as the Museum became the sponsor of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon ion 1987. This continued the enterprise of the early days, the excavations at Samaria, funded by Jacob Schiff, the benefactor who provided funds for the building of the Semitic Museum, and the excavations at Nuzi (with the Fogg Museum), and later (with the Museum underground...
...reads Peretz, the Museum's primary activity at Ashkelon is labeled Stager's personal research, not the Museum's. This is bizarre. It is the Museum's most important project. In fact the major effort of the Museum at Ashkelon has been fully funded through the efforts of Professor Stager. But the fact that Ashkelon has not contributed to the Museum's deficit does not disqualify it as a Museum program. Similarly the publication of the Harvard Semitic Museum's two series, the Harvard Semitic Museum Monographs and the Harvard Semitic Museum Studies are among the major activities...